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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were bleak and run down even before the burning, was where to buy food, clothing and other daily necessities. Gangs of youths filling shopping carts with meats, canned foods, liquor and clothing had been commonplace. One black man had time to lash a dining-room set to his car roof-but was arrested when the engine would not start. There had long been a shortage of shops and services in the densely populated communities. Asked one young black: "Now where people gonna buy milk? Where they gonna shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fire and Fury in Miami | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...their safe conduct demand. Instead, at Whitelaw's command, the killing triggered "Operation Nimrod," for which the S.A.S. force had been preparing for several days. Within 30 minutes, some 20 S.A.S. commandos, clad in black and wearing hoods, gas masks and armored vests, attacked the embassy from the roof and from adjoining town houses. They carried submachine guns, pistols and stun grenades, whose "thunderflash" blinds and deafens its victims for several seconds. Some slithered down ropes from the roof and threw grenades through the back windows. Then they leaped in after the explosions; others made a similar assault from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Daring Rescue at Princes Gate | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Besides making dozens of rebirthing house-calls--"you can't pull clients into Jamaica Plain"--Hollingsworth spends his time establishing the Institute for Wholistic Living, planned as a center for natural healing that will bring together under one roof experts in "diet, yoga, meditation, massage, herbalism, aura reading, Gestalt and Polarity Therapy, the Bach flower remedies and primal scream, as well as a psychic or two." After that, Hollingsworth hopes to organize a National Guide of Alternative Health Practitioners to "try to put a dent in the American Medical Association's monopoly on healing...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

Belluschi says the design of the center combines modern architecture with the culture of Italy. "It's rather simple, with good honest materials and a roof like those in the Italian countryside," Belluschi, who won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architecture in 1973, says. "Hopefully, after people are through with all these current fashionable things in architecture, they'll come back to this," he adds. Enthusiastic about Italian-Americans establishing a national cultural center, Belluschi says, "It's the natural instinct of a society to become interested in its identity and make the most...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Dante Society Finds Cambridge Paradise | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

Briggs currently has "extensive roof and heat-loss problems that already needed extensive repair and this is the lowest-possible-cost solution and just the right size for basketball," Wyatt said...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Corporation Votes to Renovate Briggs | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

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